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Author: Kes
Date: 2003-08-01 23:40
I found this in my wanderings around the internet, on the BBC international webpage. I really like it, and it pretty much holds true everywhere and anytime! 
"What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of colour and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently."
- Carl Maria von Weber
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"I speak reedish. Long live the language of the clarinetist!"
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-kes
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Author: William
Date: 2003-08-02 15:03
A young Korian family escaped from the North to the Soth by swimming around the border, and within days, was living in my midwestern school district with the eldest son attending my school. He didn't know a single word of English but played the violin and enrolled in my 8th grade strings class. An intelligent boy, he soon learned basic conversational English, but for the first couple of weeks at our school, his first meaningful and successful attempts at communication in our (then) "English only" educational environment was with me through the medium of music. Being able to "sit in" and immediantely play music with others helped him to feel welcome in his new social setting and made him some "instant friends" among the other 8th grade strings students. I have since had the same similar experiances with other international students, but none quite so profound. Music is truely the "international language" that speaks volumes to the soul. Weber's comment brought this story to mind--thought you would enjoy...........
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Author: Kes
Date: 2003-08-03 00:31
That is a very inspirational story! If it weren't for music...I don't think I would have gone all the places that I have in my life so far!
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